'No Treaty, No Extradition' was an unbreakable rule. The war profiteers (and judge Emmas pet Baraitser) can not wait to see Assange dead, and they have no sympathy for Ms. Morris and her two small children fathered by Assange. She then denied Julian's lawyers any more time to prepare their case - even though their client was prevented in prison from receiving legal documents and other tools with which to defend himself. He was arbitrarily detained (which they referred to as arrested) after being dragged out of Embassy over a year ago in violation of so many international laws and treaties and countrys own laws. Tatlidil was openly set up by the UK government, but Tertulias is also closely linked to the Foreign Office, which describes Tertulias as one of its partnerships and in 2013 referred to the forum as our Tertulias. We have not put it behind a paywall because the truth should not be a luxury. Julian Assange has been warned by the judge in his extradition case that he could be removed from court with the case continuing in his absence after he interjected while a lawyer for the US. The cookie is used to collect information about the usage behavior for targeted advertising. It is not known if Lady Arbuthnot was present. Assange's Fourth Day at the Old Bailey: COVID in the Courtroom I am reasonably informed about the Assange saga, but was unaware of some of what you wrote. , Until This DayHistorical Perspectives on the News. Lady Arbuthnots first ruling on Assange was made in February 2018 while he was a political asylee in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. In the meantime, it's our responsibility to fight in ways we know but which now require more than a modicum of Julian Assange's courage."[4]. This cookie tracks the advertisement report which helps us to improve the marketing activity. This cookie is used to measure the number and behavior of the visitors to the website anonymously. When that happens your remand status changes from a serving prisoner to a person facing extradition". Complaint over Judge Vanessa Baraitser missconduct Not corrupt. The 2014 event in Bilbao was, by David Lidington, the Minister for Europe, while the Foreign Office has in the past. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. It was a criminal offence to take or attempt to take photographs inside the courtroom. It is used integrate the sharing features of this social media. Declassified is now publishing a photo of Truss giving a speech at the 2014 Tertulias forum in the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao. When asked about the organisations funders or any personnel involved, including its current parliamentary chair, information was refused. If convicted in the U.S., Assange, 50, faces a possible penalty of up to 175 years in jail, his lawyers have said. 10 December 2021:The decision to discharge the extradition request is overturned by the High Court due to the United States Government issuing so-called diplomatic assurances to the UK Government. The Foreign Office has long taken a strong anti-Assange position, rejecting UN findings in his favour, refusing to recognise the political asylum given to him by Ecuador, and even labelling Assange a miserable little worm. Mr Assange is in prison while US authorities seek to extradite him to face trial on espionage charges. The judge, Vanessa Baraitser, ruled against the U.S. extradition request, citing Assange's fragile mental health, according to the Associated Press. Vanessa Baraitser accepted that Mr. Assange has remained depressed at the high-security prison of Belmarsh, which has been Assange's home for the last 20 months. Lord Arbuthnot described the purpose of the visit as to promote and further bilateral relations between Britain and Turkey at a high level. And if no photo was taken, how do they prove you were attempting to take one, as opposed to texting your mum? No political extradition was in the European Convention on Extradition, the Model United Nations Extradition Treaty and the Interpol Convention on Extradition. Lady Arbuthnot personally presided over Assanges case as judge from late 2017 until mid-2019, delivering two controversial rulings. She added "In my view I have substantial ground for believing if I release you, you will abscond again".[13][14][15]. Liz Truss was in Bilbao for three days and accrued expenses of 1,235.48 paid by Tertulias. According to a report on Friday in the South African-based Daily Maverick, Lady Emma Arbuthnot attended, along with her husband Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom, all-expenses-paid secretive gatherings of. Julian Assange is being prosecuted and punished for his political opinions (s.81(a) of the Extradition Act); Julian Assange is being prosecuted for protected speech (Article 10). Cadogan Parry, thank you for posting that important information. The High Court rejects the United States Governments arguments that the district judge erred in her findings. From 2013-16, the address. Arbuthnot directly ruled on the Assange case in 2018-19 and has never formally recused herself from it. "Who will then dare to expose anything of importance, let alone the high crimes of the West? Judge Vanessa Baraitser is evidently hostile to Mr. Julian Assange and this is witnessed from several individuals attending the hearings at Westminster Magistrate Court as well as during the. When Julian struggled to speak, he couldn't get words out, even stumbling over his name and date of birth. The United States Government appeals. An internal review into the rejection ofDeclassifiedsfreedom of information (FOI) request upheld the rejection. Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. PRESS RELEASE: Julian Assange Files his Perfected Grounds of Appeal When he was grabbed from the Ecuadorian embassy by British police in April 2019, district judge Michael Snow. This cookie is set by Casalemedia and is used for targeted advertisement purposes. She told Declassified that. The Ministry of Justice blocked our FOI request for a list of cases on which she's ruled since being appointed a DJ in 2011. District judge Vanessa Baraitser rules that extradition is barred under the 2003 Extradition Act because it is opressive (s.91). The 2014 event in Bilbao was attended by David Lidington, the Minister for Europe, while the Foreign Office has in the past funded Lord Arbuthnots attendance at the forum. US appeals UK judge's refusal to permit Assange extradition Lady Arbuthnot was appointed Chief Magistrate in Westminster by the Queen eight months before, in September 2016, on the advice of Liz Truss, who had attended the 2014 Tertulias event with Lady Arbuthnot. Excuse me. The Foreign Office has long taken a strong anti-Assange position, the political asylum given to him by Ecuador, and even, financially from another trip with her husband in 2014, this time to Istanbul for the British-Turkish. The chief magistrate has aleadership responsibilityfor the roughly 300 district and deputy judges across England and Wales. Baraitser has ordered the extradition of defendants to at least 11 countries in this period, including one person to the U.S. Six of the extraditions, or 26 percent of the rulings, were successfully appealed. The Perfected Grounds of Appeal contain the arguments on which Julian Assange intends to challenge District Judge Vanessa Baraitsers decision of 4 January 2021, and introduces significant new evidence that has developed since that ruling. Julian Assange loses extradition bail bid - BBC News "When he spoke truth and when his barrister spoke, Baraitser contrived boredom; when the prosecuting barrister spoke, she was attentive. At the start of a two-day hearing on Wednesday, lawyers acting for the US government asked London's High Court to overturn District Judge Vanessa Baraitser's January ruling that Assange should . Kathryn persuaded the judge otherwise and she discharged the entire EAW. They tweet at @DCKennard and @markcurtis30. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser who is still overseen by Lady Arbuthnot will rule on the extradition proceedings which begin on 25 February. Stores information about how the user uses the website such as what pages have been loaded and any other advertisement before visiting the website for the purpose of targeted advertisements. annual meetings between the UK and Spain have been held since 1989 but the organisation has no public presence and provides no record of events. Miralis can only assume that the New South Wales . for the removal of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. Jan 4, 2021 (RT) Jubilant scenes have greeted Judge Vanessa Baraitser's decision not to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges at London's Old Bailey courthouse. Brits, judges included, are still just lap dogs for America. At the Old Bailey on Monday, the district judge Vanessa Baraitser will deliver her decision on whether he should be extradited to face the charges in the US, where his lawyers say he faces up to 175 years in jail if convicted. Portuguese translation at hXXps://www.resistir.info/varios/assange_baraitser_31jul20.html. Does Lady A. even know Julian is from Australia and not the United States? The Perfected Grounds of Appeal concerning the Secretary of State for the Home Department (SSHD) include arguments that Home Secretary Priti Patel erred in her decision to approve the extradition order on grounds of specialty and because the request itself violates Article 4 of the U.S.-UK Extradition Treaty. This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. This is a Lijit Advertising Platform cookie. The sparse information available on the meeting, which largely comes from social media, suggests that Lady Arbuthnot may not have attended the discussions since there was a separate spouses/partners programme involving local visits. Judge Vanessa Baraitser said Assange's past conduct meant there were substantial grounds to believe that if released he would abscond again as the US Department of Justice appeals against her . I love Julian with all my heart, and I wish he were here," Ms Moris told the crowd, before describing her husband's detention as "cruel and inhuman". The mass incarceration system in the United States is cruel and inhumane, and as a result, the U.S. government had their extradition request against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied by a British district judge. The new revelations follow previous investigations by Declassified, Lady Arbuthnot received gifts and hospitality in relation to her husband from a military and cybersecurity company exposed by WikiLeaks. His predecessor Sir Alan Duncan, Duncan, who has now left office, personally. UK Judiciary is corrupt; In a Jan. 4 ruling, the judge, Vanessa Baraitser, said, "I find that the mental condition of Mr. Assange is such that it would be oppressive to extradite him to the United States of America.". "The judge watched this outrage without a comment. It also stores information about how the user uses the website for tracking and targeting. Mr Assange, 50, married Stella Moris on Wednesday in Belmarsh prison, where he has been held since 2019. This work is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. It contains an encrypted unique ID. . She also seemed in her anger to be making the unfounded assumption that whoever took the photo from the public gallery on Tuesday was still there on Wednesday; I suspect not. pic.twitter.com/a8EbIIToE5, GBC News (@GBCNewsroom) October 27, 2018. Sent sounds more extra-judicial. Britains former ambassador to Spain, Simon Manley. "Baraitser concluded the matter by stating that the Defence should submit written arguments by 10am tomorrow on this point, and she would then hold a separate hearing into the question of Julians position in the court. The list of its authors can be seen in its historicaland/or the page Edithistory:Vanessa Baraitser. Assange wins. The cost: Press freedom is crushed, and dissent labelled I give little weight to the views of the Working Group, she added, referring to the United Nations body which termed Assanges condition one of arbitrary detention. In February 2019, Baraitser ordered the extradition of Alexandre Djouhri, a Frenchman suspected of funnelling money from former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to finance Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign. The Assange case is tantamount to the UK and US rule of law killing itself in a thousand tiny cuts. Me too, Skip, me too. "He's the most amazing person.". The couple were granted permission to marry last year, and the ceremony was attended by four guests as well as two official witnesses and two guards. Despite daily lists of the cases heard at Woolwich being freely available, Matt Kennard is head of investigations, and Mark Curtis is editor, at, UK Refuses to Release Information on Assange Judge Who Has 96 Percent Approval Rate in Extradition Cases, Make your tax-deductible donation by clicking, COVID-19: Poverty Weaponized By Elite as US Eviction Crisis Looms, UPRISING: Militias Warning of Excessive Federal Power Comes True But Where Are They? had been managed by the same person living at the addresses given by parliamentarians. The extradition requires two things in place; the general Extradition Act and the Extradition Treaty with the country or countries concerned. This request, sent on March 31, 2020, was again rejected. These are long closed now. Declassified has discovered that the addresses given by Lord Arbuthnot and other parliamentarians for Tertulias and Tatlidil have been the same despite no obvious connection between the two organisations other than the UK Foreign Office. This cookie is used for the implementation of the news content from other sites. What we do not see are the events in 2021, where the U.S. government overturned the ruling and Julian was denied an appeal before the U.K. Supreme Court in . [1] In February 2019, she ordered the extradition of Alexandre Djouhri suspected of funnelling money from former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to finance Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign. It describes its objectives as facilitating and strengthen [sic] relations between the Republic of Turkey and the United Kingdom at the level of government, diplomacy, business, academia and media. "Ms Baraitser is not fond of photography she appears to be the only public figure in Western Europe with no photo on the internet.